Verb (used with object) : He hinged his action on future sales.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used without object) : Everything hinges on his decision.    From Dictionary.com. 

Bank officials declined to comment on whether Mr. Fischer's acceptance of the new term hinged on the passage of the legislation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fischer to Stay on at Bank of Israel] Reference

Windspire is on what they call a hinged monopole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cleantech Blog] Reference

And here's some guy on some kind of hinged freak bike.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cultural Accessorizing: Are Banjos the New Bicycle?] Reference

Upon further reflection, I realized that he was probably never "hinged" in the first place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Column Left] Reference

It's hinged along the left hand side of the instrument.    From Wordnik.com.  [See-Through Piano Lid Transforms Performances] Reference

The sexier name for "rear-hinged back doors" is suicide doors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Car review: Vauxhall Meriva] Reference

At times he hinged the panels together, like a traditional screen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pop Goes the Easel] Reference

Never has so much history hinged on a simple, boring power company.    From Wordnik.com.  [TURNING OFF THE LIGHTS] Reference

On a conventional front-hinged door, the wind forces the door shut.    From Wordnik.com.  [Car review: Vauxhall Meriva] Reference

Los Angeles officials say their success has hinged on a broader effort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Los Angeles Uses Light to Fight Crime] Reference

The RAV4 is a good choice, but I don't like the right-hinged rear gate door.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Picks: Small SUVs, part 2] Reference

Plus, I knew that it all hinged on the relationship I had with their father.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Healing Power Of Conversation] Reference

This week, her survival apparently hinged on her taking a bubble bath with Boobiac.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12: I, Boobiac!] Reference

  “I hate the top-hinged preset buttons that force you to press lower on them.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [From the logbook: 2010 Chevrolet Equinox] Reference

Kovner, a First Amendment expert, told NEWSWEEK that the book deal hinged on two points.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sammy Vs. Son Of Sam] Reference

Such masks are often hinged to complete the illusion, the actor changing the face at will.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dance Festivals of the Alaskan Eskimo] Reference

The rudder and elevator flaps in modern practice are hinged to the after edges of the planes.    From Wordnik.com.  [British Airships, Past, Present, and Future] Reference

But this flat cover easily unsnaps and stores out of site in the cargo floor in a hinged hideaway.    From Wordnik.com.  [2010 New York auto show: Nifty hiding spot in BMW 5 Series GT] Reference

Bushisms, which I collected for many years, often hinged on a single grammatical or factual error.    From Wordnik.com.  [Palinism 101] Reference

Instead, the trial hinged on a complex debate over the validity of the concept of repressed memory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forgetting To Remember] Reference

What if the merit of a tradition hinged on its capacity to help us live out the wisdom it commends?.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Thatamanil: The Religious Wisdom of Authentic Self-Love] Reference

  We checked our Auto Test Center parking lot to find how many cars had such a double-hinged pedal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gas-pedal inspection shows most do not pivot] Reference

The concept is simple, the “case” holds your iPad like a screen and is hinged to a Bluetooth keyboard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily Dispatch: Google rolls out new look for search and mobile; Ellen gets in hot water with Apple] Reference

In gardens many people have provided peanuts in special feeders which have a clear front and a hinged lid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Country diary: Highlands] Reference

Manufacturers use mesh or fabric shields or hinged, molded footrests that raise and clamp over the leg holes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strollers: 5 important safety features to look for] Reference

She felt as if a magician had sawn through her to the backbone, hinged her open, and scooped out the lower half.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jigsaw Magic] Reference

At Consumer Reports, we strongly caution parents about toy chests with hinged lids knowing the hazards they pose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of 22-month-old prompts recall of boat-shaped beds] Reference

Nissan got at least one thing right on the small, boxy five-door Cube: the side hinged rear door opens the right way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nissan Cube—Getting inside the box] Reference

The recalled jewelry is shaped as a metal crown or frog pendant on a metal link chain necklace in a crown hinged box.    From Wordnik.com.  [Got this? Get rid of it!] Reference

If you have a toy chest, or any chest, with a free-falling hinged lid, the safest thing to do is remove the lid entirely.    From Wordnik.com.  [Target recalls 350,000 trunks after child badly injured] Reference

If you have a toy chest, or any chest, with a freely falling hinged lid, the safest thing you can do is remove the lid entirely.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of 22-month-old prompts recall of boat-shaped beds] Reference

 All other pedals checked in our lot were rigid, one-piece designs (see above), some hinged at the top, and some at the bottom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gas-pedal inspection shows most do not pivot] Reference

But as a family car, I find the Element's rear-hinged doors a daily nuisance and cargo room is lacking with the back seat in place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Picks: Small SUVs, part 2] Reference

The device is a hydraulic pump operated by a "hinged flap," where a large metal piece moves back and forth from the motion of the waves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily Dispatch: Amazon adds Kindle features; Ocean waves power Scotland] Reference

Other small SUVs imported from Japan with side-hinged doors have had doors that open to the right since they were first introduced in 1996.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nissan Cube—Getting inside the box] Reference